The trailers to me weren't anything to be considered a comedy.
I think Japanese movies excel at 'dead air' in films. This is where we are forced to stare at something for over a minute or two where the director is telling us to contemplate or meditate on how crappy the movie is.
nope, this one is pretty amazing.
shareIf you look at the voting trend people over 40 love this movie. This includes me. You need to know Ultraman and the Ultraman family show to get this movie. I nearly died laughing when they went to the live action at the end of the movie and my sides still hurt from the closing credits. I haven't laughed this hard since Borat.
share I'm 45 and this movie sucked. it sucked worse than sucking poop.
Avoid this piece of trash. There was not one funny part in this movie.
and it was boring
"$200,000 is a lot of Money. We're gonna have to Earn It."
Blondie to Angel Eyes and Tuco
Sucking poop? What you do in your spare time is really your business pops but I saw this movie and I thought it was seriously funny - the Ultra SPOOF at the end just pushed it over the edge for me (can't think about that part without seriouly losing it laughing...)
shareYou're 45, and yet you express yourself like a 12 year-old.
shareWell, back to Nascar for you now, eh?
shareWell, the overall pace of the movie is seriously s-l-o-w paced. Most of the movie is about interviewing the main character, and he doesn't say a lot. In between we see (often pretty funny) CGI battles between the superhero and various "meanies" (or was it baddies?)
shareYou can't really ask if a movie is crappy and expect everyone to give you the same answer: it's very subjective. Personaly, I did not really like the movie. I did not think it was bad either; I just did not laugh that much, and I seriously thought that the CGI parts with the baddies were really not well made and not funny at all (not so much people were laughing at the festival, too). The begining of the movie is very promising, with the whole documentary going on and the guy that answers kind of like a freak, but a friendly freak, you know...
I usualy like Japanese comedies because of the «WHAAAT?!?!?» factor: they are usually very absurd. This, though, was kind of not well made at all for some parts, which really ruins the rest. The «baddies», which are the big thing in the movie, are just not funny and it ruins the whole atmosphere, I thought.
I gave it a 6/10.
Agreed... The problem with this movie is the fact that it is a technical trainwreck. Pacing awfull, FX criminally awful, character design awfull. You can't hide yourself behind the curtain of parody when you are just plainly taking a dump on your audience.
Look like some drunk student had a below average idea for a movie that came to life because of a rabid monkey playing with Poseur 3D.
I'm 18 and I loved it, it's certainly not for everyone though, the pacing is obviously quite slow (not uncommon in japanese films as fans of such will know) and the comedy style isn't exactly in-your-face and laugh out loud, more subtle but I still think it's a great piece of work, and FYI, the 'fx' is actually pretty great for a japanese movie.
shareI thought the film was genius too and I am 30. It is simply a love/hate film. No offense to the people that didn't like it. it's just the simple fact that you didn't 'get it'. Its a very Japanese film. A clever satire of Japanese popular culture and like Zwanster03 said I also thought the CGI was well done for a japanese film. You have to understand that the film was probably done for no more than a million or two. The Japanese film industry (or pretty much ever other country for that matter) doesn't have a 100 million dollars to waste on a film's special effects like the US does.
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I liked this movie, but didn't really 'get' the ending scene. I was extremely tired by the ending (it was around 4am) so I'm blaming it on that. Although I never really laughed, I still enjoyed watching it. I never got bored of the interviews, which I found pretty interesting.
I wish I had seen it when I was less tired so I would've enjoyed the humour a bit more. Shame really :(
For those who want to believe no proof is needed. For those who cant believe no evidence is enough
I think what this movie did was combine two of my very favorite types of humor: incredibly DRY humor and incredibly ABSURDIST humor.
It goes back and forth from his dreary downbeaten life to his wacky 'job' for the dept. of defense.
I think the director did an awesome job of capturing how sad, hard and wonderfully absurd life can be all at the same time. To get that point across, he needs to include quiet moments where yes, the viewer is supposed to just drink in the scene in front of them, to absorb the emotion. So that you can be eyeball deep in the main character's downtrodden life when he flips into the absurd battles.
Life is dull and confusing at the same time - and I think he captured that.
Of course, if you don't get the humor in the juxtipositioning of those two, then you probably won't get this movie either.
I don't know what to say about this film. I just saw a screening tonight at Sci-Fi London, I got literally thrust in there for free by the Festival director and missed the first couple of minutes. For a while I felt I was sitting in on a joke I didn't get, then when I realised the basic premise of the movie the laughs just kept coming. As with the above poster, this film manages to nail my favourite types of humour together. The action scenes are so gloriously ridiculous and unlike anything I've ever seen before, they perfectly complement the premise. The end of the movie was fairly detached from the rest, but I was already happy to take whatever the film had to offer, and found it a hilarious and flippant way to end a unique gem of a movie.
I was asked what I thought afterwards, and I simply said I would recommend this movie to everyone. Although perhaps only half of them will have their brains configured for this sort of humour, this really is original cinema.
Watch Zebraman (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388556/) instead of this one - it's the real deal.
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How come no one in any of these threads has picked up on the fact that the demon monster is supposed to be North Korean?
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